From homegrown heroes to visiting legends, here are Australia's favourite classical music and jazz stories this year.

Viewed in this way, we can see the blues as a quest for existential answers to questions that have always been, and always will be—they have no beginning, and no end. In my article about Harmony and ...

Gunther Schuller leads the NEC Jazz Orchestra in rehearsal in Jordan Hall, 1990. Schuller coined the term "Third Stream" when referring to the genre that blends classical and jazz. From jazz to ...

In Washington, politicians are yelling at each other. On cable TV, talking heads spew venom. On talk radio — well, you get the idea. But in our current troubled times, and in periods far worse than ...

At 8, The Sounds of Kwanzaa explores the history and guiding principles of Kwanzaa through music by Florence Price, Duke ...

The "Neapolitan 6th" chord (N6) is another sonority whose definition is based on the triad that it makes, which is a vertical perspective that glosses over its actual horizontal function. It is ...

LOS ANGELES — Billy Childs was all smiles in February as he walked to the backstage media center at Crypto.com Arena, cradling his sixth and most recent Grammy Award. “I always had in mind that I didn ...

A holiday album that cuts through seasonal glut, a late collaboration by Jim McNeely and Helmut Lachenmann’s string quartets are among the highlights.

Jakob Bro’s Bill Frisell collaboration finally saw the light, Cécile McLorin Salvant drew on her teenage pop memories and Anthony Braxton looked back to 1985 ...

Spivey Hall, that regal bastion of music and culture on the Clayton State University campus, isn’t immune to a little humor with its classical offerings. As part of Spivey’s 2024-25 season, the ...

I know, I know — summertime is for staying out ’til 2 a.m., losing your mind to ear-splitting bass and dancing for hours. Not exactly the realm of classical music or jazz. But there’s balance in all ...